[Python-ideas] Make py.exe default to Python 3

[Random832]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016, at 13:47, Paul Moore wrote:
> Agreed. One of the issues with the debates about whether to add Python
> to PATH by default was that the people involved - the Python core devs
> - were not at all typical users (they probably have multiple Python
> versions installed, and they are comfortable with technical details
> like PATH management, etc).

I think what might be most appropriate would be to have a "Python
Console" in the start menu (alongside the IDLE entry) which sources a
bat file to add the correct python version (and the scripts directory
for pip and easy_install) to that window's PATH, rather than installing
it in the global PATH, and users can learn to start the console from
that icon when they want to run python commands. Inspired by the fact
that e.g. Visual Studio has something that does the same.